Cigarette-forming device



v0.13. BRANCH. CIGARETTE FonMmG DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED. AUG-9. 1920.

TED STATES PATENT OFC.

CHARLES S. BRANCH, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

CIGARETTE-FORMING- DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application led August 9, 1920. Serial No. 402,306. 'I

A purpose of this invention is to providey a compact article formed or pressed, from sheet metal, into a shape which is suitable for rolling cigarettes without requiring additional guides or parts riveted or soldered thereto. A :further purpose is to provide a cigarette forming device in which duplicate members are hinged together to form the completed article.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichn .Figure 1 is a perspective view of the dev1ce.

Fig. 2 is an inside view oi one of the two parts of the device.

Fig. 3 is an end view.

F ig. 4 is a transverse sectional view showing the device closed and a cigarette therein.

Fig. 5 is another transverse sectional view but showing the device opened.

The device shown is so designed that it may be made complete by two duplicate parts hinged together, and formed by the same set oi' dies. The two principal parts 1 and 2 of the device are joined by alternating tongues 3 wrapped around a wire 4, and each part of the body is pressed to form semi-circular receivers 5 and semi-circular ends 6 and upstanding guides 7, all of which are integral. The guides 7 have longitudinal slots 8 through which the cigarette rolling ribbon 9 passes. The guides 7 are spaced outwardly of the abutting edge/s l0 of the semi-circular ends 6, and therefore provide a longitudinal opening 11 between the guides 7.

In the operation of the device it is lirst opened on its hinges and tobacco is placed on ribbon 9 between the guides 7, and 1s.

pressed downwardly into the pocket formed by the semi-cylindrical portions 5. The device is then closed and the cigarette paper is placed between the guides 7, then by drawing outwardly on one'end of the ribbon 9,

the tobacco is rolled and the paper is drawn inwardly by contact therewith and with the ribbon around the tobacco and forms the cigarette, as is customary with devices of this general class.

Although but one specific vembodiment oi this invention has been herein shown and described, it will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing Jfrom the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

l. A cigarette forming device having twol semi-cylindrical parts which are hinged together along their lower edges, and each of which is provided with integral semi-disks at each end, and an integral upwardly eX- tending guide spaced inwardly from the abutting edges of the semi-disks.

2. A cigarette forming device having two semi-cylindrical parts which are hinged together along their lower edges, and each of which is provided with integral semi-disks at each end, and an integral upwardly eX- tending guide spaced inwardly from the abutting edges of the semi-disks, each of said guides being provided with a longitudinal slot near its lower edge. y

Signed at Chicago this 6th day of August, 1920.

cunetas s. BRANCH. 

